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Echinacea or Coneflower
Look at you, glowing like a solar fire. You're something special... You're going to rattle the stars, you are !
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in my kitchen !!
(No, not really - this is a ruby red grapefruit up close and backlit with a torch)
"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." - Douglas Adams
If you think you understand the meaning of this quote, please please let me know, as I am racking my brains ;D
(Douglas Adams was a genius!)
for Smile on Saturday - theme of August 22, 2020: Freaky Fruit
Happy Saturday, everyone !!
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... Sonneneruptionen ...
in meiner Küche !!!
für Smile on Saturday - Thema am 22. August 2020: Freaky Fruit / Verrückte Frucht
Eine rote Grapefruit - aus der Nähe betrachtet und mit einer Taschenlampe hinterleuchtet
Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Samstag!
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We landed on the sun and set up a base camp - an amazing feat. Those aren't petals...they're solar flares.
Smile on Saturday - "Vivid orange".
Tulipa 'Blue Spectacle' from the inside out. "Somehow" a crate full of tulips from the Lyman Conservatory Bulb Show ended up at my house... :)
Backlit Silver Spotted Skipper getting its energy level up by spreading its wings towards the afternoon sun.
Common throughout the summer and into the fall season.
#MacroMondays
#Curves
Comet SK140767 had just passed a new sun at almost light speed. While the eight-planet solar system (with a hidden ninth orb that claimed to be a planet, too) unfolded in front of its super-tele cyclops' eye, a particular moon caught its attention. It was the only moon of that system's third planet, and it was thousands of years ago that the comet had gotten that close to any planet.
Comet SK140767 was a little tired of relentlessly travelling through space, passing solar system after solar system. Should it aim at that moon? What would happen to the mother planet if it crashed into it? And what would happen to itself? On top of it, there seemed to be life on planet no. 3. The comet's heart sank.
Then, still at a distance, the comet detected the solar system's first gas giant. It had rings! Comet SK140767's mood lifted. Oh, how it loved to surf a planet's rings for a couple of centuries. And there was an asteroid belt, too! More surfing fun ahead! Comet SK140767 decided to stay in this solar system for some time. As it passed planet no. 3 and its moon, speeding up for that wonderful asteroid belt and gas giant with its fabulous rings, its heart sang with joy of the surfing fun that lay ahead of it. And on planet no. 3, the sun just came up.
So, curves. I couldn't really think of anything for curves. And we are all surrounded by curvy, everyday items. It was "one of these themes" where I tried this and that and wasn't happy with anything. Today, I looked around for more curvy things, and my eyes fell upon this part of a broken solar lamp. For years, it had faithfully served as a nightlight, but one day, as I brought it in from the balcony, I accidentally dropped it. Its single components didn't break, but it still wouldn't work after I put it back together. Needless to say, I still kept it for MM reasons ;)
The part you see here is the bullet-shaped "bulb", just a piece of translucent plastic with soft, curvy ridges/grooves all around, which, I assume, were supposed to spread the collected sunlight like a lighthouse would. At one point, I had the idea to place my small flashlight directly behind it. This nicely highlighted the ridges and gave the scene a mysterious look. I also thought that the bulb's soft tip looked like the Moon's surface as seen by the comet's "eye". This is when I had the idea of the comet. To make the curvy ridges/grooves look more like a comet's train, I used my improvised colour filters on the two bigger LED lights to add some "space colour" to the scene.
It's a single shot. The bulb's tip has a diameter of 5 mm / 0,19 inches.
HMM, Everyone!
Today (25Oct22) we could see a partial solar eclipse from The Netherlands.
I used a 10 + 6 stops filter to create this capture.
Have a great day, cheers!
Location Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands
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A lonely road leads to the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the California desert near the Nevada border.
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On the chance I could capture a different location at high tide and sunset, I went over to the shore only to find that the tide wasn't nearly high enough for what I wanted and the sun was in the totally wrong place. As I had made the three-minute arduous expedition to the shore anyway, I played around with a few long exposures of the waves over the shore rocks and was just about to pack up when I decided I might as well wait and see if the sky did anything interesting as the sun was going down - then got lucky with this lovely 'solar flare' effect. Shot as a vertical pano to get in the foreground rocks and the sky.
I took a photo of a grove of trees after the heavy snowfall -then just applied the solarize filter in PS. The winter sky and snow colors were most affected. Kind like black snow!
Happy Sliders Sunday!
Some pretty intense atmospherics on Lindisfarne last week. Apparently this is caused by the reflection and refraction of light by tiny ice crystals in the atmosphere.
Such big skies up there.
Press L - gives it some more impact.
This image captures the sun in full diva mode, high in the sky, halo blazing, lens flares descending like a celestial mic drop. Below it, cumulus clouds puff themselves up like they’re trying to get noticed, while the water just lies there, shimmering politely, pretending not to be overwhelmed.
It’s a scene that screams “I’m beautiful and I know it,” with the sun doing everything short of singing its own theme song. The clouds stretch across the horizon like they’re auditioning for a weather app background, and the water reflects it all like a passive-aggressive mirror.
This is nature’s version of a group selfie where one person clearly didn’t get the memo about subtlety.
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LN 84-044 F-15D from 493FS almost eclipsing the setting sun. Raf Lakenheath Home of the 48th Fighter wing.
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Marina Park, Alviso, CA
The drought in California continues. We rarely see a lot of cloud under solar halo in the sky.
加州乾旱已經好多年了，平常很難看到日暈和多雲同時出現於天空。
火車已經想不出甚麼點子了，請大家將就著點看吧！ :-)
The sun plays with the clouds before it completes its descent below the horizon
Sunset Over Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida
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Izzie's Adds-On
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Music:Lorde - Solar Power
What I actually love most about this single 10 second shot isn't the sky, it's the green and red reflections in the snow at my feet. The shooting star is also interesting, but that's just icing on the cake that no one would really notice I'd imagine. Taken at -30 degrees, with my eyelashes frozen shut repeatedly, and so cold you couldn't have your glove off for more than a second or two.